Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
National Games Round Up:UP’s Ram sets National Record even as nine Games’ records tumble
Uttar Pradesh’s Ram Baboo set a National Record in Race Walk even as nine National Games records were breached in athletics and swimming in the 36th National Games here on Tuesday.
Home swimmer Maana Patel and Assam sprinter Amlan Borgohain were the stars of the day, entering the record books twice each.
Maana Patel clocked a personal best time of 26.60 seconds in the 50m Freestyle heats in the morning. Later in the evening, she improved her own Games record while winning the 200m backstroke gold in 2:19.74.
Sadly for home fans, she was beaten in the 50m Freestyle final.
Amlan Borgohain  broke the 200m mark twice, first in the heats and then in the final. Four runners cracked the 21-second barrier in the final, but there was no denying him the men’s sprint double, having won the 100m dash earlier.
Amlan left the field in his wake, as he blazed from the start, sped around the curve and consolidated on the home straight to the beam in 20.55 seconds in the final.
Andhra Pradesh’s Jyoti Yarraji also attained the rare double of 100m and 100m hurdles but would consider herself unlucky. She became the first Indian female to clock a sub-13 seconds time  in the hurdles but lay claim to the National Games or National record due to a wind assistance above the permissible limit of 2m/s.
She had faced a similar situation in the Federation Cup in Thenhipalam, Kozhikode, earlier this year when she dipped home in 13.09 seconds but the wind reading was +2.1m/s. She, however, did one better and created the National record at 13.04 seconds in the Harry Schutling Games in the Dutch city of Vught.
At the Mahatma Mandir, Uttar Pradesh weightlifter Purnima Pandey overcame a stiff back to clinched the Women’s +87kg gold. Purnima, who finished sixth at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, did enough to take the top spot on the podium with total lifts of 215kg, with 95kg in Snatch and 120kg in Clean & Jerk.
Maharashtra claimed the Kho-kho golden double, the men beating Kerala 30-26 after leading 26-10 at half-time and the women’s team dashing Odisha’s dream with a 18-16 win.
Manipur’s archers picked up two out of the four gold medals in the Indian Bow competition, with the Men’s team sharing the spoils with Okram Naobi Chanu. Okram won the single-arrow shoot-off against Gujarat’s Rathva Amita Ganpatbhai after they tied in the Women’s Individual 5-5. Manipur were denied a third gold by Kerala’s women.
Sanyunkta Kale  topped the Women’s All-Around Rhythmic Gymnastics competition with 101.65 points ahead of her team-mate Richa Chordia  and Jammu and Kashmir’s Saneha Dewan . It was the only medal on offer in the Women’s Rhythmic Gymnastics.
At the Riverfront Sports Complex in Ahmedabad, Arjun Kadhe  will meet Manish Suresh Kumar  in the Men’s Tennis Singles final while Gujarat’s Zeel Desai will vie with Karnataka’s Sharmada Balu for the Women’s Dingles crown.
In Surat, top-seeded Sai Praneeth  and Malvika Bansod  took contrasting routes to the Men’s and Women’s Badminton Singles respectively. Sai Praneeth beat Sathish Kumar  in straight games while Malvika Bansod lost the opening game to Delhi’s Aashi Rawat and needed to win an extended decider.
The results 
Aquatics
Diving
Men’s 10m Platform: 1. Siddharth Pardeshi  322.5 points; 2. Sourav Devnath  280.65; 3. Om Awasthi  244.45.
Swimming
Men
50m Freestyle: 1. Srihari Nataraj  23.42 seconds; 2. Pavan Gupta  23.48; 3. Rudransh Manoj Mishra  23.62.
200m Backstroke: 1. Utkarsh Patil  2:05.08 ; 2. Advait Page  2:05.86; 3. S Siva  2:06.29.
400m Medley: 1. Advait Page  4:28.91 ; 2. Sajan Prakash  4:30.09; 3. Aryan Nehra  4:31.03.
Women
50m Freestyle: 1. Avantika Chawan  26.54 seconds ; 2. Maana Patel  26.69; 3. Nina Venkatesh  27.21.
200m Backstroke: 1. Maana Patel  2:19.74 ; 2. Soubrity Mondal  2:23.80; 3. Palak Joshi  2:25.09.
400m Medley: 1. Hashika Ramachandra  5:09.03; 2. Richa Mishra  5:11.26; 3. Kanya Nayyar  5:11.33.
Archery 
Men
Individual: Goldi Mishra  beat Azadveer Singh  6-2; Bronze medal play-off: Anuj  beat Suresh Kumar Gurung  6-2.
Team: Manipur beat Services 6-0. Bronze medal play-off: Rajasthan beat Nagaland 5-4.
Women
Individual: Okram Naobi Chanu  beat Rathva Amita Ganpatbhai  5-5 ; Bronze medal play-off: Laiphrakpam Rojina Devi  beat Pooja Kumar  7-1.
Team: Kerala beat Manipur 5-3. Bronze medal play-off: Gujarat beat Jharkhand 5-3.
Athletics
Men
200m: 1. Amlan Borgohain  20.55 seconds ; 2. Abhin B Devadiga  20.89; 3. Muhammed Ajmal  20.97.
800m: 1. Mohammed Afsal  1:46.30; 2. Krishan Kumar  1:47.19; 3. Ankesh Chaudhary  1:47.35.
3000m Steeplechase: 1. Shankar Lal Swami  8:43.05; 2. Balkishan  8:43.14; 3. Prince Raj Mishra  8:47.15.
110m Hurdles: 1. Tejas Shirke  13.84m; 2. Surendhar Jayakumar  14.07; 3. Tarundeep Singh  14.19.
400m Hurdles: 1. T Santhosh Kumar  49.49 seconds ; 2. MP Jabir  50.57; 3. K Sathish  50.70.
Javelin Throw: 1. DP Manu  80.71m; 2. Rohit Yadav  79.78; 3. Abhishek Drall  79.01.
35km Race Walk: 1. Ram Baboo  2:36:34.00 ; 2, Juned Khan  2:40:51.00; 3. Chandan Singh  2:44:02.00.
Women
200m: 1. Archana Suseendran  23.06 seconds ; 2. Hima Das  23.61; 3. Srabani Nanda  23.64.
800m: 1. KM Chanda  2:01.58 ; 2. Twinkle Chaudhary  2:03.95; 3. Radha Chaudhary  2:04.32.
3000m Steeplechase: 1. Parul Chaudhary  9:56.65; 2. Komal Jagdale  10:00.22; 3. Priti Lamba  10:02.94.
100m Hurdles: 1. Jyothi Yarraji  12.79 seconds; 2. Agasara Nandini  13.38; 3. Sapna Kumari  13.42.
400m Hurdles: 1. Vithya Ramaraj  56.57 seconds ; 2. R Arathi  58.57; 3. Sinchal Kaveramma  58.74.
Javelin Throw: 1. Annu Rani  54.56m; 2. Rashmi K Shetty  53.97; 3. Shilpa Rani  51.93.
35km Race Walk: 1. Payal  3;11:23.00; 2. Manju Rani  3:22:32.00; 3. Puja Pramanik  3:33:56.00.
Mixed
4x400m: 1. Haryana  3:19.29; 2. Karnataka 3:20.51; 3. Delhi 3:25.60.
Cycling 
Men
Keirin: 1. David Beckham ; 2. Esow ; 3. Amarjit Singh .
Omnium: 1. Dinesh Kumar  139 points; 2. Vishwajeet Singh  134; 3. Venkappa Kengalagutty .
Women
Keirin: 1. Treysha Pal ; 2. Deborah ; 3. Mayuri Lute .
Fencing
Men
Sabre Team: Punjab beat Services 45-34. Bronze medals: Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.
Epee Team: Services beat Maharashtra) 44-30. Bronze medals: Chhattisgarh and Punjab.
Women
Epee Team: Chandigarh beat Punjab 44-41. Bronze medals: Manipur and Haryana.
Foil Team: Manipur beat Kerala 45-41; Bronze medals: Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Gymnastics 
Women’s All-Around: 1. Sanyunkta Kale  101.65 points; 2. Richa Chordia  99.15; 3. Saneha Dewan  74.55.
Kho-Kho
Men: Maharashtra beat Kerala 30-26 . Bronze medals: West Bengal and Karnataka.
Women: Maharashtra beat Odisha 18-16 . Bronze medals: Karnataka and Delhi.
Weightlifting
Men
Over 109kg class: 1. Vipan Kumar  Snatch 161kg, Clean and Jerk 195, Total 356kg; 2. Hitesh Kumar 150, 187, 337; 3. Shyopat Singh  148, 183, 331.
Women
Over 87kg class: 1. Purnima Pandey  Snatch 95, Clean and Jerk 120, Total 215kg: 2. MT Ann Mariya  90, 121, 211; 3. Manpreet Kaur  87, 120, 207.
Tennis
Men's Doubles final: Prajwal Dev and Adil Kalyanpur  beat Dhruv Hirpara and Madhwin Kamat  6-3, 6-4.
Women's doubles: Rutuja Bhosale and Vaishnavi Adkar  beat Sharmada Balu and Soha Sadiq  6-4, 6-4.
Men’s Singles : Arjun Kadhe  beat SSD Prajwal Dev  7-5, 7-5; Manish Suresh Kumar  beat G Manish  6-7, 6-2, 6-2.
Women’s Singles : Sharmada Balu  beat Yubrani Banerjee  6-0, 6-3. Zeel Desai  beat Rutuja Bhosale  6-0, latter retd.
Other results:
Badminton
Men’s singles : Sai Praneeth  beat Sathish Kumar  22-20, 21-13; M Raghu  beat Adheep Gupta  21-14, 21-13; Aryamann Tandon  beat Ravi  21-15, 21-7; M Mithun  19-21, 26-24, 21-17.
Women’s singles : Malvika Bansod  beat Aashi Rawat  18-21, 21-17, 22-20; Aditi Bhatt  beat Ashmita Chaliha  21-10, 21-11; Tanya Hemanth  beat Adita Rao  21-15, 21-13; Aakarshi Kashyap  beat Tasnim Mir  21-17, 21-14.
Hockey
Men
Group A: Maharashtra beat Haryana 3-1 . West Bengal beat Gujarat 8-2 .
Group B: Karnataka beat Tamil Nadu 5-1 ; Uttar Pradesh beat Jharkhand 4-1 .
Lawn Bowls
Men
Single : Soumen Banerjee  beat Vikram Rajak  21-10; Sunil Bahadur  and Mridul Borgohain  21-19.
Women
Pair : Assam beat Bihar 29-3; Jharkhand beat West Bengal 18-11.